“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

Speech, Senate (14 March 1834).

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American politician from Kentucky 1777–1852

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